Above the Equator Gallery

Above the Equator Gallery Above the Equator is a new hybrid gallery with a project space located in historic, downtown Hilo, Hawai‘i.

Dedicated to promoting artists working from the countries and cultures near the equator, with a strong focus on artists of Hawai‘i.

Above the Equator presentsRemittance |  November 20, 2021 - February 2022184 Kamehameha Ave, Suite 190AHilo, Hawai‘i 967...
11/15/2021

Above the Equator presents

Remittance |
November 20, 2021 - February 2022

184 Kamehameha Ave, Suite 190A
Hilo, Hawai‘i 96720

www.ategallery.com

Viewings by appointment
[email protected]

10/25/2021

Keith Tallett | Hana Yoshihata
Closing Event 11/6 12-5PM

Strictly by appointment. For private viewings and/or virtual visits email: [email protected]

Watermark features work by Hawaiʻi Island artists Tallett and Yoshihata, offering visual meditations on water, an abundant, yet increasingly precious resource. Working in a variety of mediums, the artists examine the interconnectivity between water, the natural world, and human experience, deeply connected to place.

Working from the most isolated, populated landmass on earth, the Hawaiian Islands, like many in Hawaiʻi, Tallett and Yoshihata hold multiple relationships with water in its various forms, from the great, blue continent — the Pacific Ocean, to the snow on Maunakea, which is wahi kapu (sacred place), one of the most sacred places for Native Hawaiians. Tallett and Yoshihata offer thoughtful reflections on the multiplicity of relationships humans hold with water in its various forms, rooted in place, Hawaiʻi Island, where both artists are from.

WatermarkKeith Tallett | Hana YoshihataSeptember 15 - November 12, 2021Closing Event November 6th, 12pm-5pmVaccinated an...
09/20/2021

Watermark
Keith Tallett | Hana Yoshihata
September 15 - November 12, 2021

Closing Event
November 6th, 12pm-5pm

Vaccinated and negative covid tests welcome
For more info + schedule a visit: email [email protected]

Above the Equator
184 Kamehameha Ave, Suite 190A
Hilo, Hawai‘i 96720

ategallery.com

Kenyatta Kelechi was born and raised in a highly photogenic place: Kailua, Oʻahu. Yet his art practice turns our attenti...
07/28/2021

Kenyatta Kelechi was born and raised in a highly photogenic place: Kailua, Oʻahu. Yet his art practice turns our attention away from landscapes, seascapes, or people. Kenyatta, instead, chooses the material nature of photography itself as his subject. To do this he capitalizes on the side effects of chemically based photographic processes––finding striking compositions amongst material separations and chemical reactions that are typically the bane of representational photography. Relinquishing the need for total control and collaborating with process. The artist is currently meddling with the nineteenth-century method of wet plate collodion, or what is commonly referred to as “tintype” photography. Kenyatta received his BFA from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 2016. He can still be found there in the photography lab, assisting students, and mixing chemicals.

Lauren Shearer was born and raised on Maui, where she grew up surrounded by Hawai‘i’s floral backdrop and rich culture, ...
07/28/2021

Lauren Shearer was born and raised on Maui, where she grew up surrounded by Hawai‘i’s floral backdrop and rich culture, practicing the tradition of lei making. However, once she realized that almost all flowers, plants, and animals that surround us can be used to make lei, she began to experiment and has not stopped. By moving beyond the comfort zone of standard lei flowers, she has discovered a process that both pays homage to tradition of the craft and also creates a modern vision for lei. Lauren’s mission is to create awareness of the natural world around us, wherever we go. This has led to the creation of a custom lei making business, in which she draws inspiration from surrounding flora and fauna in all stages of development to create wearable art.

Noah Harders was born and raised in Waikapū where he lives on land inhabited by his ancestors for hundreds of years. Hav...
07/28/2021

Noah Harders was born and raised in Waikapū where he lives on land inhabited by his ancestors for hundreds of years. Having attended the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Noah returned home to create wearable art made of flowers, leaves and other found organic materials. Noah describes his growth as an artist spanning multiple practices including installations and photography as a “crazy progression of finding myself”. His technical skill in fabricating wearable pieces is fully revealed in his expressive self portraits shot in his home studio drawing us all into his surrealist fantasy.

With THIS MOMENT passing, the “now” is everything we think, feel and experience through a series of points pieced togeth...
06/04/2021

With THIS MOMENT passing, the “now” is everything we think, feel and experience through a series of points pieced together, connecting the future and past. THIS MOMENT is a collection of works that document, honor, arrange and link these flashes of time, lending them gravity and allowing us to ponder whether time is an illusion. THIS MOMENT brings together three Hawaiʻi artists, Noah Harders, Kenyatta Kelechi and Lauren Shearer, who share contemporary reworkings of historic techniques ranging from lei to photography.

This Moment
June 11 - August 13, 2021

OPENING June 11, 4-7PM

Noah Harders | Kenyatta Kelechi | Lauren Shearer

Lau Building, 184 Kamehameha Ave, Suite 190A, Hilo, Hawai‘i 96720

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184 Kamehameha Avenue Suite 190A
Hilo, HI
96720

Opening Hours

12pm - 10pm

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